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Friday, August 19, 2016

Pretty in Pink (and Lime)

HelloShock! It's been raining this morning - not much, but the ground is actually wet. Oh well - as the grass around here is now brown rather than green, I guess the gardens could do with it - but I hope the sun comes back soon!

We have a new Daring Cardmakers challenge this week and Svenja is definitely in a Summery, Zingy, Sherbet mood as she's set a colour theme for us this time:

"It's
Svenja here and this week I want to try and preserve that summer
feeling just a little longer with some mouth-watering fresh &
bright colours: use a combo of

RaspberryandLime

Sounds like a bit of an odd couple to you? Not at all - just check out our BLOG to see the Design Team's fab creations!"

Pink and green is a wonderful colour combo, and I was looking forward to doing this one. So why was it like getting blood out of a stone. I think the card I eventually managed to finish was my third attempt! One started off quite well, but then I realised I hated the focus piece I'd started to make and I couldn't decide where else to go with it - so rather than end up making a hash of it, I set it aside to deal with later! Next I used a layered fancy die to make a centrepiece, but that was as far as that one went - am I the only one who has days like that?So I cleared the decks and started all over again.

Info:

Coloured card all Bazzill

I cut a white square and slightly larger green square for the background.

Using the frame lasercut as a guide I cut an aperture in the white square, then alarger one in the green layer.

Next I used a series of increasingly deep shades of raspberry pink inks and the "Mini Spinning Tops" 6x6 stencil (Crafters Workshop) over the white square.

Once dry, I adhered the layers together with 3D glue. sliding a rectangle of printed lime green card into the aperture. This piece is cut from some packaging I saved as it was so pretty - I think it was the backing card from some KandCo goodies!

I used black ink to colour the gorgeous chipboard frame from August's Craft Box

12 comments:

Love your creation Kathy - hope you'll blog about the ones that didn't make it this time too! Yes, it happens to me as well. I often start out with one idea and it transgresses into another! Enjoy your weekend, Shabneez xxx

Your card looks great (as usual), Kathy. Lush! As I already told you: you always make these things look so easy. And I think it's often so that in hindsight nobody can tell the pain that went into a creation.I must keep my eyes peeled for that stencil btw., I think it's great because it gives structure to the background without asking for too much attention.